State of Tennessee v. Treca Finchum

A Sevier County jury convicted the Defendant of theft of property valued over $500 and of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. The trial court sentenced the Defendant as a Range I, standard offender to two years for the theft conviction and to eleven months and twenty-nine days for the contributing to the delinquency of a minor conviction, to run concurrently. The trial court also ordered sentences of split confinement, with the Defendant to serve ninety days in jail, "day for day," and the balance of each sentence to be served on supervised probation. The Defendant now appeals, arguing the following: (1) that insufficient evidence was presented at trial to convict her of theft and of contributing to the delinquency of a minor; (2) that the admission into evidence of a list of items stolen from Wal-Mart was inadmissible hearsay; (3) that the trial court committed reversible error by excluding a statement against interest from an unavailable witness; and (4) that the trial court erred in sentencing her. After a review of the record, we affirm the judgments of the trial court as modified.